"I can live in the world with an environmental consciousness of how to behave. I can bring that into my clinical practice. I can have a consciousness about how to be in the world, and I can bring that to my sessions with my clients, because all of my clients will be impacted by environmental issues.”

“When you practice that external skill, it actually creates a different experience inside of you. So one of the ways I think you can become more empathic as a therapist is to practice reflective listening, because doing that will actually expand that inner curiosity that you have."

“One thing we haven’t even talked about is how we’re preparing all students to go out there and work and practice. All of our students, regardless of where they work or whether they ever know it or not, will work with trans people, right? And so, what we’re doing in the classroom or modeling is how to do that.” – Meg Paceley

“It's not waiting around for them to change. It's on us to come together and push for the changes that we know we need. That's the foundation of the overarching safer spaces umbrella that I work under. It's what inspires me.”

“Young Black men who reported higher scores of having ubuntu were more likely to see the benefit and value of seeking professional mental health services, whether that be a counselor or a social worker.”

“We're missing the ball. People with long COVID aren't even being assessed for long COVID. We're not finding out that we have it until major events have occurred that may have been avoided altogether.”

- Jazmin Graham, LCSW

"Don't be afraid to have a voice. Advocate for yourself. If you have ideas, get involved. Be as careful as you can be, but just make sure you're offering that piece of education and really just showing people and guiding them through our social work ways. Eventually, people will hear you and understand.”

– Stephanie Stodolka, LMSW

“One out of two adults have somebody related to them who has been incarcerated, So to be able to be effectively responsive to that is such a need.”

“Health inequity is baked into the cake. It is not incidental. If we acknowledge that that is true, that health care providers are trained in a way that reinforces racial biases and gender biases and ableist biases … we could start to do something differently in the way we think about medical practice and medical training in medical school.”

“I don't know how many more times we can say thoughts and prayers for these families when there's tangible steps that we can take that actually change the outcomes of some of these things. How many more lessons do we have to learn? How many more lives do we have to lose? How much more trauma do we have to take on until we say this is enough and actually do something?”

– Kathryn Franco, LMSW, MPH